There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPassion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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